repulse
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Aristotle recognized that we take pleasure in viewing fictional representations of tragedies, suffering and mutilated corpses that would repulse us if we confronted them in reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
His malignity and psychopathology seem to attract followers when these same characteristics should repulse people.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2024
Troops from South Korea, the United States and other countries under the direction of the United Nations battle to repulse the invasion.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
Persuading people to join the fight against mass incarceration because Whites stand to benefit is bound to repulse those already committed to the cause.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2021
We returned to the schooner with our spoils, as we feared that the owner of the place even then sought out his neighbors to repulse us.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The thought of consulting it about Salmon repulses me.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
"Actually, the idea of wearing it repulses me, I don't even take my old ones out of my drawer. It's a shame, because the shirt itself is gorgeous."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2022
“Beth, the thought of cutting up a turkey repulses me.”
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2019
But this very unnaturalness terrifies and repulses others.
From Nature ● Jul. 24, 2018
But while Thomas’s touch now repulses me, I feel no revulsion toward Day.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
Gen. James Bartholomees told the troops after they were deemed to have repulsed the invaders from the beach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Initially repulsed by her new housemate, a closer relationship gradually develops between the two women.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025
There were those repulsed by the kind of language parodied in these books, and those who forced everyone else to speak this way.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025
It captured Lalibela, famous for its rock-hewn churches, and Gondar, the second-biggest city in Amhara, for several days in August before being repulsed.
From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2023
That I might see she was actually scared of me, repulsed at hands turned claws, just like everybody else.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
This ion is pushed out of the crystal by the repulsing forces of the nearby Li+ ions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023
Staufenbiel was at his best when it came to illuminating the emotional energies attracting or repulsing these characters.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Speaking on the phone from Kyiv, Mr Zhorin said the roughly 1,000 Ukrainian defenders left in the works have been fighting in "360 degrees for more than one month", repulsing attacks from all angles.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2022
That’s especially detrimental to the UH-60 Black Hawks, helicopters that are used for everything from repulsing Taliban onslaughts to casualty evacuation to resupply.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
And we were careful not to touch, so careful it felt like some repulsing magnetic field had settled between us.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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